Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] think that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dozen books took up the space of three dozen nomes , and while Grimma privately thought that some of the books were more useful than many of the nomes , she 'd accepted Dorcas 's promise that they would come back , one day , and try to retrieve them from their hiding place under the floor . |
| 2 | Brenda often thought that this was the part of the working day she liked best , the hour before the staff arrived and the work of the Lab got really under way , when she and Inspector Blakelock worked together in the quiet emptiness of the hall , still and solemn as a church , making up a supply of manila folders ready to register the day 's new cases , repacking exhibits for collection by the police , making a final check of the Laboratory reports to courts to ensure that the examination was complete , that no relevant detail had been omitted . |
| 3 | Darwin certainly thought that aggressive fighting was common . |
| 4 | Baldwin rightly thought that this particular bubble would be pricked over the weekend . |
| 5 | Professor Wolfgang Wild thinks that this weakness is shared by university research and much of the industrial research sponsored by the Ministry for R & D ( BMFT ) . |